Rainy Day Reads

This book tells the story of a young man who accidentally burns down the Emily Dickinson House, killing two people in the process. He goes to jail and when he is released, he starts a new life with a wife and kids, telling them that his parents are dead so there will be no intermixing of his old life and his new. The son of the people he killed comes to see him and from here it’s a downhill tumble for Sam, our main character. His old life comes back to haunt him and it messes up his new life in permanent and devastating ways.   I didn’t really like this book. It was okay, but I had hoped for so much more. First off, I have recently found out that I don’t like stories told in the first person. I’ve never liked them, but I only realized why, while reading this book alongside “Camille” by Alxandre Dumas fils, which is also told in the first person. We only get the story from one point of view, and if that point of view isn’t especially discerning, but rather bumbling and ...